Ok – so Google has certainly done its fair share of helping the world of social media (or hindering it, according to your viewpoint). Taking tools such as You Tube, Blogger and Google Reader and making them accessible to millions has certainly been a major boost to each of these burgeoning areas. There have of course also been a few less than stellar steps including most recently Gooogle Buzz.
However, with its latest revision of its search engine homepage, I have to say that I feel it has given social media a real leg-up in the world of search and perhaps delivered a timely reminder that the worlds of social media and online search are …
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Facebook and Google: social media versus search?
There you go then – statistics never lie do they? For a time earlier this month, Facebook was the most trafficed site on the planet according to Hitwise, relegating Google to second place for the first time in, oh, I don’t know how long! Clearly Social Media has now beaten Online Search into submission and a new era has dawned!
Not really Armageddon for Search
Well not really, though we are entering an interesting phase, even if it isn’t the cataclismic event that I’m sure the film industry would manage to turn it into if they had the chance. Simple measurement of user hits remain somewhat skewed because of the very different nature of the beasts – Facebook is designed to be …
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